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  • Nicholas Boileau Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Oscar Wilde I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Thurber I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Ben Shahn I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Alban Berg I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Cockburn I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Ezra Pound I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic - I mean my motion.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alan Bean I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Umberto Eco I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Augustus I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
    Augustus
    Roman emperor (63 - 14)
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  • Richard Dawkins I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Noel Coward I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Charles de Gaulle I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Anne Enright I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
    Source: De samenkomst (2010) 178
    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Sydney Smith I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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